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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

5 months

A big year of news and events in Christchurch. It never stops in the garden city. #christchurch #localnews

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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

1 year

Fresh footage has surfaced offering another insight of the events that unfolded in Auckland. It was captured using a 360 camera. Notably, at the 53-second mark of the video, Posie Parker can be observed trying to depart from the scene. Video: @SimonRAnderson1

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Chris Lynch

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4 years

Stop "paying tribute" to Rowan Baxter. Change your news to psychotic evil monster brutally murders 3 children & wife. Stop painting him as a loving father man who loved his children. He burned his 3 children alive. He is not a good bloke. Stop using mental health as an excuse.

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The world’s first transgender woman to receive a Queen’s Royal Honour has accused an Auckland activist of causing more harm than good.

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1 year

Looking forward to a more united New Zealand.

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Brainwashed

ɴᴢ ᴍᴇᴅɪᴀ ᴡᴀᴛᴄʜ

@nz_media_watch

2 months

@actparty Meme from 1News 2024-04-05

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6 months

Despite the media's significant efforts to highlight and broadcast the protests, the actual size and impact of these demonstrations appeared to be less substantial than anticipated. Thoughts with One News through this difficult time.

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1 year

Twitter labels RNZ “Government funded media” upsetting the broadcaster, despite being government funded.

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Chris Lynch

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4 years

Fantastic news, New Zealand has no coronavirus cases and as of midnight, the country returns to normal with no restrictions, except the border remains closed.

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Chris Lynch

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2 months

OPINION: Ardern has slammed the “politics of fear” but perhaps she’s forgotten her favourite tactic?

OPINION: Ardern’s Legacy - The Irony of Fear in the Guise of Leadership — Chris Lynch Newsroom

OPINION: Jacinda Ardern’s denunciation of the “politics of fear” during her address at the University of Bologna has rightfully been criticised as highly hypocritical given the fear tactics she used...

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Chris Lynch

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9 months

This endeavour to revise historical narratives is concerning.

Coronavirus Plushie

@c_plushie

9 months

"Well they made a choice". A very callous sounding New Zealand PM @chrishipkins doubles down on what he said on Sunday. Even though the choice was to either get the #Covid shot, or lose your job: "No one was made to be vaccinated." #nzpol #CoercionNotChoice

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9 months

Mixed Martial Arts Champ shares video of Hipkins' vaccine mandate contradiction to his 1.7 million followers

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Chris Lynch

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8 months

The Disinformation Project's narrative has been thoroughly debunked. They have contributed to the division in New Zealand, and it's time for them to be held accountable.

Bored of the Disinformation Industry

@disinfonz

8 months

The Disinformation Project (and other notorious “disinformation experts”) were all in on the Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke home invasion story; it made the DP’s research look predictive and so retrospectively justified it.

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Chris Lynch

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9 months

“There was no compulsory vaccination, people made their own choices” | misinformation, n. Wrong or misleading information.

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1 year

New Zealand's former Deputy Prime Minister is calling for Marama Davidson to step down following her “offensive racist” comments.

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Chris Lynch

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6 months

Clear as day, media outlets influenced by financial lures. NZ on Air funding came with strings attached: a mandated narrative framework. Publicly funded opinion pieces in left-leaning outlets only muddied the waters. In the Ardern era, these blurred lines have left media solely

Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

2 years

There has been much discussion and concern expressed about the media and the effect that the $55m PIJF may have had on their ability to objectively and critically comment on difficult issues of public interest. The template funding docs are available on the NZ on Air website

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Chris Lynch

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2 years

Joanna Kidman attacked views that deviated from her own by race baiting, social media pile-ons, authoring petitions & name-calling 'offenders' using the derisive term "settler." She's now in charge of a terror research centre to bring about social cohesion

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1 year

Activist Shaneel Lal has been named the 2023 Young New Zealander of the Year. Lal was instrumental in promoting Saturday’s rally in Auckland where a protestor was charged with assault. The award was sponsored by University of Canterbury. The judges said “they have been a

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Chris Lynch

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8 months

"Mass disclosure of deception & discrimination” @winstonpeters slams Government’s 11,000 vaccine exemptions granted to “health workers"

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2 years

One News led with a story about keeping Kiwis safe by reducing speed limits. Picton crash, which killed 7 people, was used as an example. The car sadly crossed the centre line. It was nothing to do with speed.

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Chris Lynch

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3 months

COVID vaccines linked to increases in heart, brain, blood disorders: Auckland University hosted study says.

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9 months

Government accused of manipulating news with paid content on TVNZ and STUFF

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1 year

A spokeswoman said “in no way does Kiwibank condone violence or hate speech, however we encourage the acceptance of multiple different points of view with tolerance, respect, and constructive conversation.” Full story:

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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

8 months

One News boasts an 'exclusive' from the Disinformation Project, resting on 'data' from news articles that have been entirely discredited. The irony? Their source is disinformation. It's almost comedic how they've manufactured such blatant untruths— and expect us to buy it.

1News

@1NewsNZ

8 months

#EXCLUSIVE : New report shows anti-Māori sentiment on the rise

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Chris Lynch

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6 months

intriguing to observe how certain media outlets seem to be actively promoting participation in tomorrow's protest. The larger turnout enhances the story's significance and amplifies the media's role in shaping public discourse. 🤪 They love it.

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Chris Lynch

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4 months

OPINION: Shoplifting scandal exposes media bias covering Golriz Ghahraman.

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Chris Lynch

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3 months

Have you been blocked by Dr Joanna Kidman? Let me know. Many thanks.

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5 months

OPINION: Human Rights Commission's internal emails over the "white cis men and violence" comment have exposed and damaged the organisation.

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Chris Lynch

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3 months

John Tamihere’s salary, more than the Prime Minister. Colonisation.

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@coughlthom

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Waipareira Trust senior management average pay $510k - more than the Prime Minister.

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Chris Lynch

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1 year

Violent crime surges by 30% since Labour took office, Minister struggles to explain why after being repeatedly asked by @jacktame on @NZQandA .

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1 year

The Disinformation Project: Guardians of truth or pawns in a political game? The messaging that accompanies their commentary warrants closer scrutiny. #nzpol #misinformation #NewZealand #NZTweets

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1 year

Act Party Leader @dbseymour calls for Davidson’s resignation over “racist” comments. #nzpol

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Chris Lynch

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3 months

The @actparty is demanding the dismissal of the director of an anti-extremism centre for her own extreme remarks.

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Chris Lynch

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5 months

Women.

1News

@1NewsNZ

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More than half of people who menstruate have some pain for up to three days a month. Here's what to eat — and avoid — when you have period pain 👇

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Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke claimed that people "ram-raided" her home and "came into my house and threatened me" but police said that was incorrect.

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Chris Lynch

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2 months

"The blatant misreporting and subsequent outrage from some journalists is not only a disgraceful example of journalism, but yet another example of blatant political bias." Read Winston Peters full statement on the media.

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Chris Lynch

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1 year

Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence and Sexual Violence said “I know who causes violence in the world, and it’s white cis men.”

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Chris Lynch

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2 years

Just watched Ryan Bridge's excellent interview with the PM. Did the PM use a tragedy to deflect answering questions? That felt familiar.

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1 year

Minister of Justice Kiri Allan is currently pushing through a programme of reform to the rules around political fundraising by politicians. And yet it turns out Allan herself has received large donations that raise questions about the integrity of the politician says

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Chris Lynch

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4 months

James Shaw insists 'We don’t want to do the police’s job.” Why did the party engage with one of the shops involved?

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Chris Lynch

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7 months

Incredible footage! Emirates A380 'sidewards attempt' to land at Christchurch airport. Video: Jasmine Moody. @WeatherWatchNZ

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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

1 year

This is an extremely concerning development. Who was the offical that wanted the warning removed?

Steve Kirsch

@stkirsch

1 year

The New Zealand government knew about myocarditis, ignored medical advice, and directed any mention of it be removed from press releases and information about the vaccines. Are you surprised? How does that protect the public?

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Chris Lynch

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1 year

A group of care workers has successfully sued the New Zealand government for an unlawful vaccine mandate. They want the Prime Minister to apologise. #newzealand #nopol

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6 months

Activist Shaneel Lal made inaccurate claim about Posie Parker, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled.

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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

1 month

When that's all you have left...

Lawrence Hakiwai (Father/of two)

@SonofOmahu

1 month

And it's time to play the race card. So very predictable.

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Chris Lynch

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5 years

Some words as I reflect on this week:

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1 year

The Disinformation Project missed the avalanche of disinformation from the state broadcaster. It seems their unwavering dedication to watching knitting videos might have led to a severe case of truth-deficiency. It's almost like they knitted themselves a blindfold.

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2 years

The hypocrisy is incredible. Last time I saw you were being paid to front a Government "vaccinathon" live on TV.

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2 years

Brutal assessment of Jacinda Ardern “In 2 years she has attacked some of the nation’s proudest & most cherished features — including equal suffrage, the rule of law & freedom of speech.”

Ardern enters the tragi-comic phase of her tenure

theplatform.kiwi

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Chris Lynch

@chrislynchmedia

9 months

The presence of a news organisation operating with the Prime Minister's office is a profoundly unsettling revelation.

Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

9 months

Stuff launched The Whole Truth in 2020 as an election fact-checking project. It was then “re-imagined” as a project to counter Covid misinformation. In that guise it was first funded by a Google grant and then by $591,000 from NZ On Air. From government, the project was

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10 months

ACT @actparty pledges to abolish cultural reports in sentencing

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27 days

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) in New Zealand has paid out over $9.6 million to 1,664 people injured by the COVID-19 vaccine.

ACC pays out $9.6m for COVID-19 vaccine injures — Chris Lynch Newsroom

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) in New Zealand has paid out over $9.6 million to 1,664 people injured by the COVID-19 vaccine. Injuries include allergic reactions, sprain, cardiac injury,...

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Chris Lynch

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2 years

Mike Hosking is spot on. No wonder he's trending on Twitter.

William McGimpsey

@TheZeitgeistNZ

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Mike Hosking: “The media, too much of the media, is biased, and the danger in it is not the fact that they’re biased, it’s the fact they claim they aren’t. They claim they’re the defenders of the truth, and in that is the con.”

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4 months

Stuff pushes a narrative that blames men for Golriz's fall, and stirs the pot further seeking comments from Joanna Kidman, infamous for her racist outbursts on social media.

‘Ignominious end to a valuable parliamentary career’: Ghahraman resigns

The Green MP acknowledged she had been badly affected by the stresses of work; a former MP said the abuse levelled against her “would disgust you...would horrify you“.

www.thepress.co.nz

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2 years

Ministry of Health launches study into New Zealanders who developed heart conditions after taking the Pfizer vaccine. Read story:

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8 months

Skyrocketing crime, plummeting school attendance under Labour’s watch unveiled in report.

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4 months

Thought the same thing. Accuses everyone of division…. Yet earrings don’t exactly say “unite”

The Redbaiter

@TheRedbaiter

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This cretinous grifter goes on mainstream TV and labels David Seymour divisive while she wears over-sized earrings saying "decolonise". Neither Ms Packer or her smirking DEI hire interviewer gave the slightest sign of perceiving the arrant hypocrisy. @NZNationalParty @actparty

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“The media should not treat the Disinformation Project as impartial. It is clearly a partisan group with a particular political ideology which should be clearly identified whenever they are referred to in the press. Pretending that they are impartial is itself misleading the

Thomas Cranmer

@CranmerWrites

9 months

Kate Hannah and the Disinformation Project continue to discredit themselves. In 2020, Hannah and others released a paper which stated that, “It is notable that a considerable amount of the narrators identified were either associated with, or explicitly from, conservative leaning

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Chris Lynch

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2 months

Government investigating feasibility of reopening Marsden Point Oil Refinery

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3 months

Is One News trying to be next?

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10 months

A Cessna Skyhawk has conducted this flight path at the top of New Zealand’s South Island tonight. Source: Flightradar24

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6 months

During my time in the One News' newsroom, I observed a constant eagerness for dramatic events during Waitangi Day. Nothing much has changed. except the notable shift in the rise of activism within the newsroom itself.

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1 year

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins stumbles over defining a woman during a press conference.

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5 months

#BREAKING : Government to restore council ownership of water assets, after Labour Government tried to take it off them.

Government to restore council ownership & control of water assets — Chris Lynch Newsroom

Government to restore council ownership & control of water assets

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4 months

The ongoing trend of excusing criminal activities, as seen in One News' portrayal of an alleged shoplifter frankly off. This kind of journalism glorifies criminal behaviour on the basis of accepting a narrative handed on a plate.

1News

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#ANALYSIS : Ghahraman’s exit exposes the toll on female MPs 👇

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New revelations reported by Phillip Crump of a second shoplifting incident allegedly by the @NZGreens MP

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2 months

Venues Ōtautahi decision to cancel Graham Linehan booking at Hagley Oval has been described as “spineless”

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1 year

“Condescending" campaign for 5-minute showers costs $2.8 million according to Newshub.

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2 years

This is Donna Chisholm, a journalist, who called Auckland voters racist. Don't be like Diva Donna.

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1 year

This story might be buried so here is it again - Fourth New Zealand death linked to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

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23 days

The reporter's use of 'alleged' inaccurately suggests uncertainty where there is none, misleading the public and compromising journalistic integrity.

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3 years

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern doesn't front for one of New Zealand's biggest reforms in recent history. #behind

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2 years

Perfect New Zealand #NewZealand

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2 years

The lawyer who successfully challenged vaccine mandates for police and NZDF says the government initially tried to suppress evidence after it lost the case in February. #nzpol

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Auckland University removes “segregation” sign

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STUFF reporter accuses documentary of disinformation without seeing it leaving New Zealand filmmaker mystified.

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2 years

Mike King, widely known for his work in the mental health sector and suicide prevention and founder of I Am Hope, has written an opening letter to the Prime Minister. "What expertise has Nanaia Mahuta’s husband had in suicide prevention?"

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3 years

It's been revealed the Govenrment paid a PR spin doctor to ensure favourable media coverage over its vaccine procurement, while giving a "heads up" to "independent" commentators before announcements, according to the Herald.

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3 months

Dr Joanna Kidman’s Victoria University profile is 404

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2 years

Lovely to see Stuff providing a platform for Harry Tam, an honorary life member of the Mongrel Mob. Very cute.😍😊😉😀

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2 years

Ardern said “watching the removal of a woman’s fundamental right to make decisions over their own body is incredibly upsetting” 😱

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Graham Linehan had his Christchurch venue cancelled, but organisers found another place. He said, he's used to it. So why did @Glinner risk everything, plus life on being 'platformed' again. #Christchurch

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1 year

Human Rights Commission confirms it's received complaints following Greens Co-Leader Marama Davidson's comments.

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1 year

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins asked to explain the definition of a woman: [Source: Chris Hipkins' Facebook]

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7 months

Cry harder Guardian reporter. Isn’t democracy awful.

Elle Hunt

@elle_hunt

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New Zealand votes rejects Labour and bring back the National party: opening the gates to no-fault evictions, foreign property investment, lower capital gains taxes, ditching welfare reforms and rail, more cars and roads and escalations in the culture war. Dismal stuff

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Christchurch is rolling out the red carpet for another climate change conference. Prepare for the cavalcade of 'thought leaders' and political activists, tripping over each other for a moment in the spotlight while flooding our feeds with their vacuous tweet-sized wisdom.

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2 years

How terribly gutless to force the new speaker of the house to make the apology the day after you leave

Speaker apologises for issuing Winston Peters with trespass notice

The Speaker of the House has apologised for issuing a trespass notice to former Deputy PM Winston Peters for visiting the anti-mandate occupation at Parliament.

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1 year

Some of New Zealand most respected surgeons and medical physicians have written a scathing open letter to the health minister as unmet surgery crisis deepens:

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Protest in Christchurch today on Government's vaccine mandates. Photo:Adrian Lambert

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6 months

Poor old One News staff. Spent so much time working on the “feels good” only to realise it was a waste of time. How utterly glorious.

1News

@1NewsNZ

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A Treaty Principles Bill based on existing ACT policy will go to Select Committee as soon as possible. The Māori Health Authority will also be scrapped. 👇 More on today's coalition deal

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Protestor who threw tomato juice charged with assault:

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Ashley Bloomfield's fluoridation orders unlawful High Court rules

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6 months

One News getting support from friends. Give it a rest.

1News

@1NewsNZ

6 months

Labour leader Chris Hipkins says deputy prime minister Winston Peters could be "breaking the law" with his comments surrounding the independence of media.

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Labour wants us to have shorter showers and wash clothes in cold water to help to save money this winter. While it spends taxpayer dollars on "public information" campaign using TV, social media, print, bus stops, and malls.

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His success challenges prevailing attitudes. He exemplifies that despite facing adversities, he’s not a victim. His independence highlights the fact that people aren't 'owned' by any group. This is unsettling for those who expect him to conform to a narrative of opposition and

Liam P. Hehir

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Why do they just *hate* James Meager so much? It's so weird. He's a brand new MP who has not a hint of scandal about him. The Meager Derangement Syndrome is weird AF.

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2 months

How grotesque

Ani O'Brien

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2 months

Gross. I called out people for being sexually gross about Jacinda & I think it is just as disrespectful to Luxon & his wife. It’s not hard to make attention grabbing signs without being a creep.

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2 years

The Spin Off endorses public funding cuts for Shakespeare saying it will live on. What about endorsing public funding cuts for The Spin Off, so that it doesn’t.

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2 years

Christchurch & Auckland mayors politely give the Government’s three waters reforms the middle finger putting forward alternative plan, saying it was time to end the Government’s divisive plan. #christchurch

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“There is no specific definition of a woman” says Midwifery Council after removing words "woman" "baby" and "mother"

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1 year

The Human Rights Commission is being accused of double standards by @actparty leader @dbseymour for failing to condemn material by Christchurch Author Tusiata Avia.

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Lest we forget

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